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I get why some people become jaded/bitter but really confirmation bias is a thing and you should seek out the good in things instead of...

There are issues I can see coming up with running FH that long without secondary capping mechanisms, but that's true long before that so...

That's often been my feeling about it, but I can understand someone who's tired of having to go back to that argument Yet Again. And I...

My point was that while hit points were the standouts in simulation failure, almost all the combat mechanics did that, they were just a...

Well, you could have them be both: look at Earthdawn.

They aren't really the same question. "60 sessions" requires a game to probably be functional over extended play, but it still may not...

If you're trolling, that is an A+ job. A true work of art, completely within any conceivable board rules, and delivered with apparent...

Well, as noted, trad games tend to have a lot more tolerance for the GM putting their thumb on the scale. In theory at least, if a set...

That was more or less my point. There were early games that made some serious attempts at simulation (though even they only took it so...

Yeah, but it was the "not passing or failing anything" I was disagreeing with. You absolutely are doing that (and the fact that the...

I think its more a case they have to convey strongly what the game is trying to do, and how the rules support that. At that point, if...

That's all right, they tended to forget about us when GDS was being developed, too. (Given the only regular participants that leaned in...

Eh, I think it's more nuanced than that. Mostly because the game wasn't ... well, designed in the same way that we think of today. We...

OK, I see what you're saying. Thank you for elaborating. As I understand you you're talking about the difference between (broadly)...

Notice how much this was a peripheral rule that could end up coming up only irregularly and largely in a downtime context. There were...